Well, if you tell me I can only watch one movie on Christmas, it will be 12 showings of A Christmas Story on TBS and 12 showings of A Christmas Story on TNT.
Also, in case anyone wasn’t aware, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.
What you fail to realize is that Die Hard is, in fact, an unacknowledged sequel to A Christmas Story. Although the identities of the participants have been changed to protect the innocent, Ralphie grows up to become none other than ‘John McClane’, a NYPD officer with a gift for creative profanity leaned from his father and an affection for his H&K MP-5 submachine gun which he enjoys getting off spectacular hip shots. The experience in the Nakatomi building is in effect reliving his childhood experience unfettered by adult supervision, defeating the bully, removing clothing that he finds constricting, and shooting all manner of objects and people, as well as finally telling authority figures that they “just got buttfucked on national television”. And so, Die Hard is Ralphie’s ultimate Christmas dream come true.
Unless, of course, you subscribe to the notion that it is all jst a fantasy playing out in his imagination. But I see no reason to engage in errant speculation. The conventional interpretation is quite sufficient.
Stranger
I would agree but for this. I can’t see the parallels between Ralphie and McClane with regard to removing clothing that he finds constricting.
No.
It’s the best rom/com ever.
You can watch Die Hard at Christmas as often as you like, but it’s not a Christmas movie.
In a weird way wasn’t Die Hard actually kind of a sequel to an old Frank Sinatra movie?
I think Sinatra was actually offered the role first.
I’m very happy he turned it down.
If you don’t think Bad Santa is the best Christmas movie ever, then there is something about you that thinks Bad Santa is not the best Christmas movie ever!
Oh, I guess that was his beother that was bundled so much that he couldn’t put his arms down. Nonetheless, it made such an impression on Ralphie/McClane that his first instinct upon gerting to the office is to take off his shirt and walk around barefoot. “Son of a bitch, it works!”
Also, the scene where Ralphie finally beats up his tormentor is essentially shot for shot of McClane beating Karl. If there were a chain hoist in that backyard Farkus would have been hanging from it.
You can keep saying this as if it will be true with repetition, but Die Hard has every essential element of a Christmas movie: coming together of family to resolve conflict, a lost faith regained, the giving and opening of presents, a Christmas miracle, and even snow. [McClane to Ellis: “You missed some.”] Pray tell, how is this not a Christmas movie?
Stranger
Nah, that seems stretching. He was barefoot because of what a guy on his plane told him, not because of some long-standing memory of his brother laying on the ground like a slug because it was his only defense.
Die Hard is most defiantly a Christmas movie. There’s even an illustrated book to prove it.
I don’t know if it’s the best Christmas movie, but it’s got to be close. The only other movie that could be a better Christmas movie is Scrooge with Albert Finney.
*Die Hard *is easily as much of a Christmas Movie as It’s a Wonderful Life. And if George Bailey had gone after Mr. Potter the way John McClane went after Hans Gruber, the latter would have been much improved.
“I hope that’s not a hostage.”
Bad Santa, Die Hard, and A Christmas Story are the only xmas movies I own. I watch them every xmas.
So you are saying you own two Christmas movies and also Die Hard?
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He also removes his jacket and shirt despite the fact that he is at a professional office function. Clearly, a man who does not like to be burdened with excess clothing.
Stranger
Die Hard would be exactly the same movie if it were set during any other holiday, or none at all.
So, no.
But KISS Versus the Phantom of the Park beats both of those to be the best Kiss movie of all time.
Hard to picture George Bailey running on broken glass though.
Nope, actually “KISS saves Santa” is the best Kiss movie of all time. Actually, the best Christmas movie too! WINNER!
Have you seen this tribute to the best Christmas movie ever?
